Image: 1851 Christiana Tragedy print

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Description: In 1851 a posse led by Edward Gorsuch and a federal marshal under the aegis of the Fugitive Slave act of 1850 attempted to recapture some escaped slaves who had take refuge in the house of William Parker near Christiana, Pennsylvania. William Parker and others resisted, killed Edward Gorsuch, and drove the rest of the posse off. This print is from the 1871 book "The Underground Rail Road" (p. 350) by William Still depicts the shooting and fleeing.
Title: 1851 Christiana Tragedy print
Credit: From the book "The underground rail road", by William Still, Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1872, page 350. Taken from https://archive.org/details/undergroundrailr00stil/page/n391/mode/1up?q=christiana
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